The New Emoji as a Pictorial Cue and Parent‐child Relationship Maintenance

Yotong Wang ； Ningxuan Zhou

《International Journal of Social Science and Education Research》 4卷11期 (2021/11) Pp. 433-441

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202111_4(11).0067

摘要

This paper investigated the reason why it was not likely for the harmonious parent‐child to generate conflicts due to new ambiguous emojis in Computer‐Mediated Communication. We found out that it is because parents and children's perception of emojis function and senders' intention had no obvious gap. And parents believed that CMC has more benefits than face‐to‐face interaction when children were away from home. Our findings were come from four participants included in two families, and we interviewed them based on two parents' misunderstanding of new ambiguous emojis that have occurred. The method we used is in‐depth interviews relied on WeChat chatting room and we used thematic analysis method to analyse the data. In this paper, we have contributed a few evidences to argue that it is a trend for parent‐child relationship maintenance to take advantage of the new emoji in CMC.

關鍵字

Parent‐child relationship ； CMC ； FTF interaction ； The new emoji ； Misunderstanding

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